ibbones
Well-Known Member
I have always gone with the "don't fear the foam" with my Star San and never bothered me. I keg and sometimes (OK, all the time) the foam rises up out of the top of the keg and I have to clean up the kitchen floor. I was going to keg two beers today and rinsed out the kegs like normal, added a couple gallons of star San and shake till my teeth hurt. Let it sit on the floor while I get my bucket from the fermentor and set it on the counter. Open it up and dump the Star San into my bucket to use for the other keg and cleaning. Did the first one and had foam rising out of the top. Got the second keg ready and this was an Austin Anniversary IPA that has to be dry hopped. I was going to dry hop in the keg. I added the hops to the foam filled keg and racked my beer into the keg. As the foam rose to the top, it carried all my pellet hops out of the top of the keg!!! I was trying to pick up those little green pellets but they were already mush. I don't know how much I lost but lesson learned. Next time I will add the hops AFTER I rack.